Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search for paradise is not so easily abandoned. If man cannot find paradise in one place, he will look for it in another-and so he has today. He has found it within himself. In spite of all that Freud has taught the 20th century about the ambivalence of inner drives and longings, a growing number of modern thinkers have put their faith and hope in the psyche as the last refuge of idealism in a corrupt, unhappy world. Charting the physical decline of one civilization after another, Historian Arnold Toynbee took comfort in what he called the "etherealization...
...certainly not the traditional idea. The creators of classic Utopias were not much interested in liberating the personality or reaching the inner man. They wanted to constrain the inner man with his ungovernable impulses. They wanted-let us admit it-to repress the personality. "The tyrant of individualism has forever been put down," boasted a 19th century Utopia called The Crystal Button. In a 1903 Utopian novel, Limanora, everyone is deliberately made to work too hard to have time to think about himself or his desires. Those who persist in the glorification of sensory pleasures are exiled to an island...
...Hague's victorious elections, offering me a glance at a large white mint wafer on which was written in green sugar script, "From Uncle Frank." "Uncle" Frank! What glory! Of course she was no more Hague's niece than I was, but her father belonged to the inner political circle and mine...
...public moneys depends on personal and corporate income tax, a form of levying largely reserved for the Federal Government. Meanwhile the traditional base for municipal taxation-real estate-has stagnated, largely because of the move of businesses and middle-class families to the suburbs and the concomitant growth of inner city slums. Revenue from real estate taxes is further reduced by the tax-exempt status of government and other institutional holdings. In Detroit, 30% of developed land is lost to federal and state office buildings, schools and hospitals. Pittsburgh took 85 acres off its tax rolls with the construction...
Their music, however different listeners interpret it, calls out such strong feelings that some Dead fans-many of the oldest and most involved ones, who tend to see themselves as an inner circle of real understanders-resent those who, in the Dionysian tradition of rock, are carried away by the music to the point of clapping, singing, and screaming while the Dead play. That, the old fans feel, is a superficial reaction to the Dead that destroys the close feeling between band and audience they're used...